In the World of the High Tech Redneck, the Graybeard is the old guy who earned his gray by making all the mistakes, and tries to keep the young 'uns from repeating them. Silicon Graybeard is my term for an old hardware engineer; a circuit designer. The focus of this blog is on doing things, from radio to home machine shops and making all kinds of things, along with comments from a retired radio engineer running from tech or science news to economics; from firearms to the world at large.

Saturday, May 21, 2016

No Way

So imagine this: here I am, about 850 miles from home at the now-ending Dayton Hamvention. I hadn't really told any friends we were coming up.

Within the first hour we ran into a couple that we're long time friends with, who live within a half hour of our place. We had been joking about seeing them because we always run into them at hamfests and gun shows, then there they were. A few hours after that, we ran into my really long time friend, N4RFC (linked in the right bar). Today, I ran into an online friend I've known about ten years.

None of this was planned. There's about Avogadro's number of hams here. If you had asked me, I'd say ...

Actually I thought the rain kept the crowd down a bit this year. And it definitely made the inside a better experience. 2 or 3 years ago it was so hot you could barely breath in the building and there was a distinct odor of burning resistor in the main arena from something that someone had plugged in.

And I resisted the urge to buy a new antenna. Though I should have picked up the Baofeng handheld. Can you go wrong for 28 bucks?

About a year and a half into my tour on Forrestal, I bumped into a guy I knew from high school. He had been on board for two years. Roberta spoke about her trip to the Hamvention, and talks in some detail about keys (bugs). http://twowheeledmadwoman.blogspot.com/2016/05/hello-hello-im-here-post-roadtrip.html

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